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The Elizabeth Shelton School Library Media Center serves our entire K-4 student population. Our book collection currently has over 10,000 volumes. We have a Chromebook cart with 30 computers in our Library Media Center and an interactive Promethean whiteboard. Each class in our school comes to the library for a 40 minute class weekly. In addition, for one quarter of the school year, each class comes to the library for a second time each week, to have technology lessons and our students get hands-on practice, including mouse skills, keyboarding, and research.
Curriculum
Curriculum
Units of Instruction
Units of Instruction: The Library Learning Commons (Library Media Center) has four units of instruction.
Unit 1: Empowered Learner - Introduction to the library, technology, and keyboarding. This unit is covered in the first 6 weeks of school. It in includes keyboarding. Keyboarding is a district milestone in grades 3, 5 and 7. All schools will assess the students WPM (words per minute) and accuracy.
Unit 2: Digital Citizenship - Students are become informed and safe users of the Internet. They learn about cyber safety, digital footprints, and cyber bullying. All of the Shelton Public Schools Media Specialists use the Common Sense Curriculum for Internet Safety instruction.
Unit 3: Innovative Designer - Our students will learning about computer science and coding for the next two months. We will also introduce our Maker Space. The Maker Space will have a variety of STEAM materials to encourage exploration and innovation.
Unit 4: Knowledge Constructor - Students will participate in project based learning. They will learn to use online data bases and sites to locate information. They will present this information in many forms. Students may choose reports, pictures and maybe they will take advantage of our new video production room.
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